Best way to learn MinecraftEdu Coding / Code Connection / Code Builder?

[Robert Keith]

Hello All -

We would like to start using MinecraftEdu Coding / Code Connection / Code Builder with our elementary classes.

Are the courses on the Microsoft homepage for MinecraftEdu the best place to the best way for us (teachers) to learn? Do you recommend any other resources?

Thank you for your help!

Rob

Trinity School

[Judy Batdorff]

Did you ever get an answer to this question?

How did you start teaching Minecraft Edu Coding?

What resources did you use?

Thank you!

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Judy Batdorff

6th grade Computer Literacy Teacher

7th & 8th Enrichment Teacher

Pinewood Middle School

Kentwood Public Schools

“The function of education . . . is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically . . . Intelligence plus character–that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Robert Keith]

Hi Judy -

Yes, we got started. 

Our main resource is the code included with the Minecraft Education Edition materials on their website. Our kids are in Grade 4, so they are doing a lot of reproducing and debugging at this stage. We have included some lessons that allow kids to break code. Primarily, we are focusing on building a city, so our kids replicate code for cuboid, rectangular prisms, roads, walls, surfaces and tunneling. Our culminating project will be for the students to create a city using this code, along with their own.

Minecraft has been great during remote learning. 

A few things to note:

Multiplayer in Education Edition is buggy and unreliable, especially if students are in multiple locations. 

I have never been able to get the pyramid code on the Minecraft Education website to work. A lot of people seem to struggle with this one. 

Rob

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[Judy Batdorff]

Thank you!

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